Emergency Tool Kits Monitoring System

Abstract

This paper proposes an emergency tool kit monitoring system. The main aim is to employ the internet of things (IoT) system to monitor the usage and status of items in the emergency kit. A web application is built for users to monitor and update on the states and availability of the items, whereby, the sensed data is stored in the cloud database. A notification email is triggered upon remaining usage running low or item expired. Users can also report an undetected issue through an online reporting portal. Two communication platforms are also tested to find the optimal solution for the proposed system. From results, the transfer time of ThingSpeak MQTT is reduced by 11.765% in comparison with using the WIX HTTP protocol. ThingSpeak also showed the advantages of smaller response size, in which, it is 0.4 KB smaller than WIX, and transfer time is 53 ms shorter. However, the developed system on both platforms able to receive the transmitted notification data with relatively low latency. This has significantly become a value-added into IoT technology and development.